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Featured Program

New Emotional Wellbeing PAS Group — Regiser by Sept. 27
Duke Personal Assistance Service (PAS) is offering a new group for people who are interested in learning new skills to manage intense emotions that come up during everyday situations and affect overall happiness. The group will meet four times from in Oct. from 12-1 p.m. Space is limited. Please register by Friday, Sept. 27. Learn more about the group here.

NIH Award Opportunity
Pioneer Award Program — Due Sept. 9
The NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact. Proposals are due Monday, Sept. 9.

APP Clinical Excellence Awards — Nominations Due Sept. 9
You can recognize the dedication, expertise and impact of our exceptional of our Advanced Practice Providers in the field of clinical excellence. One APP will be selected from each Duke Health entity to receive this award. 
Eligibility: Any APP employed with Duke Health for at least one year and in good standing   
Nominations: Peer nomination period is open through Sept. 9 using this nomination form   
Recognition: APP Clinical Excellence Award recipients will be announced during APP week: Sept. 23-27

KURe Call for Applications Open — Due Sept. 9
The Duke Multidisciplinary K12 Urologic Career Development Program (KURe) is a K12 institutional career development grant funded by the NIH/NIDDK. Qualified clinical, translational and basic science researchers (MDs, DOs, PhDs and MD/PhDs) from diverse disciplines who are interested in building an independent research career using collaborative, multidisciplinary approaches to benign urological research questions are invited to apply.
Application deadline: Sept. 9
Anticipated start date: Oct. 1

Residency Program Virtual Open House for Prospective Applicants — Sept. 9
Faculty and current trainees, please consider joining our residency program virtual open house for prospective applicants, held on Monday, Sept. 9 from 7-8:15 p.m. EST. Registration is required.

Introduction to Basic Concepts in Machine Learning 
Virtual seminar on Tuesday, Sept. 10 from 12-1 p.m.
Dr. Ricardo Henao will introduce the basic concepts of machine learning with a focus on intuition and examples. The simpler and widely used logistic regression model will be introduced first, and from this, the multilayered neural network will be introduced as a generalization.

Duke CTSI Career Development Award Program Accepting Applications — Due Sept. 9
Members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply to the CTSI Career Development Award Program. Up to two Scholars will be awarded 75% total protected effort for two years, up to $20,000/year for research expenses and up to $2,500/year for travel to professional meetings. Funding will start Jan. 2025. Applications are due Sept. 9. 

Postdoc Award Nominations — Due Sept. 11
Nominations are now open for the Outstanding Postdoc and Outstanding Postdoc Mentor at Duke. These awards honor not only research achievements, but contributions in mentoring, service and teaching. Nominations are due Wednesday, Sept. 11 at noon. Awards will be presented at the 18th Annual Postdoctobervest, an event celebrating Duke’s hard-working postdocs, on Friday, Oct. 11 from 4-6 p.m.

Virtual Research Conference on Maternal Mortality — Sept. 19
Frontier Nursing University and The Campion Fund are sponsoring a virtual research conference on Thursday, Sept. 19 focused on the Maternal Mortality Crisis in the U.S. This event aims to delve into the critical issue of maternal mortality, highlighting successful programs and practices that have effectively reduced maternal mortality rates. 
The conference features exceptional speakers including:

  • Eugene DeClerq, PhD, MBA, Professor at Boston University School of Public Health and faculty of ob/gyn at the Boston University School of Medicine: Maternal Mortality in the United States
  • Robert White, MD, MS, Assistant Professor at Cornell Weill School of Medicine: Economic Burden of Maternal Mortality to the United States
  • Wendy Post, DNP, MSN, RN, from Georgetown University: Black Women Shouldn't Die Giving Life: The Lived Experiences of Black Women Diagnosed with Severe Maternal Morbidity in the United States

Gail Parkins Memorial Ovarian Cancer Walk & 5K Run — Sept. 21
The 22nd annual Gail Parkins Memorial Ovarian Cancer Awareness Walk & 5K Run is Saturday, Sept. 21 at Sanderson High School in Raleigh. The run is at 8:30 a.m., the educational forum is at 9:30 a.m. and the walk is at 10:30 a.m. A virtual 5K option is also available starting in Sept. Please consider joining or donating to the Duke Ob/Gyn team. All proceeds go toward ovarian cancer research here at Duke! Join and/or donate to the Ob/Gyn team. Thanks to team captain Isabel Josephs, MD!

Duke Moms Affinity Group
Duke Moms Affinity Group hosts a variety of opportunities for mothers to find support. A committee of Duke moms partners to provide fellowship and connection among like-minded members and to promote events across the Triangle. Many events are planned, including these: 
Moms Night Out & Park Play Date Events
Beginning in September and October, an alternating series of park play dates and moms night out events will be hosted each month! These casual social meet ups are for moms looking to build community with other team members and their families. 

From Silos to Insights: A Data Strategy for Integrating Clinical Registries 
Virtual seminar on Thursday, Sept. 26 from 12-1 p.m.
Dr. Anthony Sorrentino will present a session focused on unlocking the potential of patient registries by creating a pilot data mart that links several of Duke's clinical registries with existing EHR data.

What's Best for Breasts — Oct. 5
What's Best for Breasts, a free community event exploring women's breast health, will be held on Saturday, Oct. 5 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Participants will start the day learning about breast cancer risks, prevention and survivorship through information sessions and Q&A panels with local breast experts. After lunch, a community-centered research event will dive into research on other women's health issues and how they may affect participants.

Postpartum Running Sessions — Oct. 12
Duke Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy is offering free postpartum return to running and exercise screenings on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Each session includes a personalized hour with a Duke physical therapist specializing in postpartum.

2024 Duke School of Medicine Academic New Faculty Orientation — Oct. 22-23
Faculty are invited to join the 2024 School of Medicine New Faculty Orientation, which takes place Oct. 22-23 at the Trent Semans Center and features tailored pathways to support the unique needs of clinicians and basic scientists. This orientation is open to any SoM faculty hired in the last three years. Click here to register for the orientation.

Faculty Opportunity: Office of Duke-NUS Affairs
The Office of Duke-NUS Affairs is based in Durham and coordinates administrative support to all collaborative initiatives between Duke, Duke-NUS, and SingHealth. The office was established early in the Duke-NUS partnership and functions as a single portal of entry for access to Duke from Duke-NUS and SingHealth. All of its programs serve to enhance mutual learning between Duke, Duke-NUS and SingHealth, as well as expand the growth of academic medicine at Duke and in Singapore. The Office of Duke-NUS Affairs is proud to support and oversee the expansion of collaborative research between Duke, Duke-NUS and SingHealth by funding and facilitating internal awards for joint Duke/Duke-NUS research projects as well as incoming and outgoing study trips for faculty, students, researchers, clinicians and administrators.

Clinical Trials Website and Directory: My Duke Research
The Duke University School of Medicine partnered with CTSI's Research Equity and Diversity Initiative (READI) and the Duke Office of Clinical Research (DOCR) to launch a new community-facing website about clinical research at Duke called "My Duke Research." The website aims to provide help information on research, share updates about current studies and research results and highlight the connection between health research and community health.

Duke's Sexual and Gender Diversity Advisory Council
The Sexual and Gender Diversity Advisory Council (SAGDAC) is a think tank that helps support collaboration and a wide range of innovative LGBTQ+ initiatives across Duke. Watch this video to learn more about the council’s advocacy work—from ensuring clinicians use appropriate terms in medical records to partnering with law students to address legal issues such as denied insurance claims.

Maternal Child Health Resource Available on CERI E-Library
A new copy of The Practical Playbook III — Working Together to Improve Maternal Child Health is now available on the Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) E-Library. The E-Library also serves as a resource for researchers to discover books, toolkits, and resources for community-engaged research. Visit the CERI E-library.

Duke Moms Affinity Group
Duke Moms Affinity Group hosts a variety of opportunities for mothers to find support. A committee of Duke moms partners to provide fellowship and connection among like-minded members and to promote events across the Triangle. The group is making plans to host bi-monthly Moms Night Out events and Park Play Dates. Watch this video to hear members share what they love about the community or share your interest in volunteering by sending an email to DukeMoms@duke.edu. 

Scholars@Duke 3.0 — Learning Resources 
Scholars@Duke offers opportunities to learn about Scholars 3.0, which launched in June. Scholars@Duke users can register for the earliest class that is convenient for their schedule.